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Member	USNCYR Biography
Convenor Professor Derrick Armstrong Dean, Faculty of Education & Social Work Acting Deputy Provost (Learning & Teaching) and Pro–Vice–Chancellor	Derrick is passionate about social inclusion and justice for young people. He emphasises the importance of including the perspectives of young people in research. Derrick's research in childhood and youth centres on education, with particular focus on special and inclusive education. Derrick has researched extensively in the area of children and crime. He jointly evaluated 'On Track', a programme concerned with the role of multiple interventions in crime reduction for 6–12 year olds in the UK. More recently, he was Co-Director of a £1.5m pound sterling funded Research Network investigating 'Pathways Into and Out of Crime: Risk, Resilience and Diversity'.
Convenor Dr Dorothy Bottrell Senior Research Associate Child and Youth Studies Faculty of Education & Social Work	Dorothy's background is in secondary teaching, juvenile justice, youth and community work and teaching in community services and welfare studies. Dorothy is a seminar leader in pre-service teacher education courses. With a social justice orientation, Dorothy's work aims to shift understandings of disadvantaged and marginalised young people away from categories of 'problem youth'. Identity work, resistances and resilience are central themes of her research, explored in relation to schooling and transitions. She is currently working with Professor Derrick Armstrong and UK partners on the ESRC Priority Network project, 'Risk and resilience in children who are offending, excluded from school or who have behaviour problems'.
Convenor WUN Contact Dr Kathy Edwards Senior Research Associate Child and Youth Studies Faculty of Education & Social Work	Kathy has a long-standing interest in feminism, gender and issues of social justice that she brings to her research on childhood and youth. Previously a Senior Research Associate on the Youth Electoral Study (which investigated young people's attitudes toward politics and voting) in her current role Kathy continues to explore issues of young peoples' democratic participation. Her most recent work aims to understand participation as an issue of social justice, and in the context of a social policy framework and 'the state'. She is also interested in exploring young peoples' lived experiences and perceptions of social class.
Dr Maria Amigo Anthropology Faculty of Arts	Maria completed her PhD at the University of Sydney's Department of Anthropology in 2005, researching child labour in Indonesia. She conducted fieldwork in Indonesia for a year, with child workers as her main informants. She is very interested in continuing research in this area of children's economic lives.
Dr Ann Cheryl Armstrong Director Professional Learning Faculty of Education & Social Work	Ann Cheryl has worked in education and professional development for 20 years and has extensive experience as a teacher, teacher educator, research manager, project manager and programme leader. She has worked in countries throughout the Caribbean as well as in the UK and Australia. Ann Cheryl has also held senior positions in two national World Bank projects and has extensive experience in networking with government and non-government agencies for the provision of educational and social services and training. At present she is the on the University of Sydney Indigenous Education Advisory Committee as well as on the Sydney Region (Schools) Planning Group for Aboriginal Education and Training.
Dr Elise Baker Lecturer Faculty of Health Sciences	Elise Baker is a speech pathologist and lecturer with over 15 years clinical and research experience in the area of speech impairment in children. Elise has a particular interest in treatment efficacy research; exploring how theory informs practice, and how intervention research informs theory. As co-leader of the NSW Evidence-Based Practice Network: Paediatric Speech Group, Elise is interested in how clinicians across different workplaces put research into practice. She also has interests in the interaction between the developing lexicon and phonology, the genetic bases for speech impairment, and, speech, language and reading outcomes for children with a cochlear implant.
Philippa Collin PhD Student Faculty of Arts	Philippa is a PhD candidate in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Policy Manager at the Inspire Foundation. Her research looks at the relationship between youth participation policies, the internet and the development of youth political identities. More broadly her research interests are on: the relationship between participation, citizenship, ICT and mental health; international comparative research; and social policy.
Professor Raewyn Connell Faculty of Education & Social Work	Raewyn wrote a PhD on the development of young peoples' (5–16) political consciousness (The Child's Construction of Politics), worked on the 2nd Sydney adolescent study (12–20), then on social division in secondary schooling and families (Making the Difference). She worked on a national study of poverty and education (Running Twice as Hard: Schools and Social Justice), then on an applied study of vocational education; also life–history studies of gender formation (Masculinities, The Men and The Boys)
Dr Teresa Davis Senior Lecturer Faculty of Economics & Business	Teresa's primary research interests centre around the child as a consumer as socially and culturally constructed. She is interested in the current debate around advertising to children.
Dr Catherine Driscoll Gender & Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts	Cathy is Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published in a number of areas related to youth and childhood, including her monograph Girls (Columbia University Press, 2002). Current relevant research projects include an ARC discovery project on rural girlhood and a consultancy with the NSW Dept of Education on peer mentoring.
Suzanne Egan PhD Student Faculty of Education & Social Work	Suzanne's doctoral research is on "Feminist Knowledge Production and Sexual Assault Services in NSW. A History of a Present".
A/Professor Robyn Ewing Acting Dean Faculty of Education & Social Work	Formerly an early childhood (K–2) teacher, Robyn's original doctoral work was in the framing of educational knowledge in classrooms; teacher and student interaction and co-learning; negotiation of the curriculum; and quality learning.
Toby Fattore Postgraduate Student Faculty of Economics	Toby is currently investigating children's paid and unpaid work in developed economies; and as a researcher at the NSW Commission for Children and Young People he is also examining children's understandings of well-being.
Dr Anne Honey Research Fellow Faculty of Health Sciences	Anne is a Research Fellow with the Australian Family and Disability Studies Research Collaboration. Her research background is primarily in mental illness, adolescent eating disorders and vulnerable families. She is currently project managing an international research collaboration funded by ARACY to bring together pan-disciplinary perspectives on issues relating to adolescents with chronic conditions. Anne's next project, to start in October 2007, aims to a) illuminate how health care and autonomy are negotiated in families in which an adolescent has a mental illness and b) develop strategies for optimising mental health self-care and wellbeing in these families.
Dr John A. Hughes Pro-Dean Faculty of Education & Social Work
Dr Kurt Iveson Lecturer Urban Geography Faculty of Science
Dr Karen Lambert Lecturer Faculty of Education & Social Work	Karen has been teaching in the PDHPE, youth health and health promotion areas for eight years. A PDHPE teacher by trade, Karen is an enthusiast of critical learning theories, productive pedagogies and learning by doing. In her teaching she strives to develop students' skills in applying theory to practice in a variety of learning and teaching contexts. As a learner Karen has recently completed her PhD research focusing on issues of sexuality, gender, identity and sense of place. She is also currently training as a life coach.
Haibin Li PhD Candidate Faculty of Education & Social Work	Finishing her Masters with a major in Educational Psychology, Haibin continues her PhD study at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Professor Derrick Armstrong. In her PhD project, she aims to explore how children/adolescents develop into competent people despite high risks. Haibin was working in a high school as a school counsellor and administrator for several years in China. In 2001 she was awarded "excellent Director of national students experience training" in China. Her research interests include resilience, parental involvement, parental expectation and self-concept.
Dr Rozanna Lilley Editor The Australian Journal of Anthropology	Rozanna is interested in the social trajectories of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families. She is approaching this research from a background in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, and is currently working on a book titled The Autism Chronicles: Maternal Narratives of Love, Loss and Labour. Rozanna's research is currently hosted by Pathways, and early intervention centre in Marrickville. She has previously lectured in Comparative Childhood at Lingran University in Hong Kong, and is also involved in research on autism and the contemporary imagination, focusing on the figures of 'the wild child', 'the eccentric', 'the genius' and 'the autistic celebrity'.
Dr Neil Maclean Senior Lecturer Anthropology Faculty of Arts
Dr Karl Maton Lecturer Sociology & Social Policy Faculty of Arts	Karl is a sociologist of knowledge, curriculum and pedagogy. He is the creator of "legitimation code theory", an approach being used in studies of a range of issues in education, e.g. studies of "net generation" / "digital natives".
Dr Tricia McCabe Lecturer Speech Pathology Faculty of Health Sciences	Tricia is a speech pathologist with research interests in interventions for severe speech disorders in children and young people.
Natalie Munro Lecturer Speech Pathology Faculty of Health Sciences	Natalie is currently completing her PhD thesis which is investigating the underlying processes involved in novel word learning in children with language impairment and their typically developing peers. She is also interested in intervention approaches to improve oral language and emergent literacy abilities in children with language impairments. She has conducted a feasibility trial investigating the relative merits of a combined semantic and phonological awareness intervention approach for preschool and early school-aged children with language impairment. As part of emergent literacy approaches, Natalie is also investigating parent–child storybook interactions as an intervention context for children with language impairment.
Anita Niehues Doctoral student Faculty of Health Sciences	Anita's research interests include play and young children with disabilities and their families, process consultation, occupational therapists' use of framing and reframing in their practices, and therapists' view of their roles in different contexts.
Suma Parahakaran PhD Student Faculty of Education & Social Work	Suma's area of interest is "Human values education into the school formal and informal curriculum". She has been working with children and youth attitudes and behaviours. As a teacher, her research area has been "Integration of basic human values into subject curriculum".
Professor Trevor Parmenter Faculty of Medicine / Faculty of Education & Social Work (Adjunct)	Trevor holds the joint appointment of Foundation Professor of Developmental Disability in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Director of the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (CDDS) (1997– ). He also holds the conjoint appointment of Adjunct Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney. Trevor is a former special education teacher and special school principal. His research career has centered upon youth and adults with a disability in issues such as employment, community living, transition, mental health, physical health, family studies, forensic issues and quality of life.
Dr Helen Proctor Research Associate Faculty of Education & Social Work
Dr Kathryn Rose Senior Lecturer Faculty of Health Sciences
A/Professor Louise Rowling Faculty of Education & Social Work (Adjunct)	Louise has established over a 30 year period, a national and international reputation for work on health promoting schools, mental health promotion and adolescent bereavement. Louise has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation on a number of occasions. She was co-director of the research and development phase of 'MindMatters', the Australian school mental health promotion project and chairs the Evaluation committee. She is the President of 'Intercamhs' the International Alliance of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools. In this role she is currently leading negotiations to form a partnership with the International Confederation of Principals (ICP).
Dr Lesley Scanlon Lecturer Faculty of Education & Social Work	Lesley has worked extensively through research, programme design, development and evaluation in youth transitions. Specifically in the transition to university and the ways in which this experience can be supported through structured mentoring. Lesley is also engaged in evaluating the use of the mentoring role in supporting pre-service teachers develop their identity as professions.
Dr Jane Simpson Senior Lecturer Linguistics Faculty of Arts	Jane has been working with colleagues from the University of Melbourne and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies on a longitudinal project documenting the language environment of Indigenous children in three communities in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley. She is very concerned that language professionals and teachers should have up-to-date and accurate information about the languages and social practices of Indigenous families, so as to work more effectively with Indigenous children.
A/Professor Robert Van Krieken Sociology & Social Policy Faculty of Arts
Dr Ariadne Vromen Senior Lecturer Faculty of Economics & Business
Dr Nikki Wedgwood Research Fellow Faculty of Health Sciences	Much of Nikki's research has been with adolescents, focusing in particular on gender and embodiment. For instance, she has studied the gendered embodiment of young women and men who play Australian Rules football in secondary school. She plans next to look at the impact of sports participation on young people with physical disabilities, bringing the body into sharp focus through life history interviews.

Member

USNCYR Biography

Convenor
Professor Derrick Armstrong

Dean, Faculty of Education & Social Work

Acting Deputy Provost (Learning & Teaching) and Pro–Vice–Chancellor

Derrick is passionate about social inclusion and justice for young people. He emphasises the importance of including the perspectives of young people in research. Derrick's research in childhood and youth centres on education, with particular focus on special and inclusive education.

Derrick has researched extensively in the area of children and crime. He jointly evaluated 'On Track', a programme concerned with the role of multiple interventions in crime reduction for 6–12 year olds in the UK. More recently, he was Co-Director of a £1.5m pound sterling funded Research Network investigating 'Pathways Into and Out of Crime: Risk, Resilience and Diversity'.

Convenor
Dr Dorothy Bottrell

Senior Research Associate
Child and Youth Studies
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Dorothy's background is in secondary teaching, juvenile justice, youth and community work and teaching in community services and welfare studies. Dorothy is a seminar leader in pre-service teacher education courses.

With a social justice orientation, Dorothy's work aims to shift understandings of disadvantaged and marginalised young people away from categories of 'problem youth'. Identity work, resistances and resilience are central themes of her research, explored in relation to schooling and transitions. She is currently working with Professor Derrick Armstrong and UK partners on the ESRC Priority Network project, 'Risk and resilience in children who are offending, excluded from school or who have behaviour problems'.

Convenor
WUN Contact
Dr Kathy Edwards

Senior Research Associate
Child and Youth Studies
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Kathy has a long-standing interest in feminism, gender and issues of social justice that she brings to her research on childhood and youth. Previously a Senior Research Associate on the Youth Electoral Study (which investigated young people's attitudes toward politics and voting) in her current role Kathy continues to explore issues of young peoples' democratic participation. Her most recent work aims to understand participation as an issue of social justice, and in the context of a social policy framework and 'the state'. She is also interested in exploring young peoples' lived experiences and perceptions of social class.

Dr Maria Amigo

Anthropology
Faculty of Arts

Maria completed her PhD at the University of Sydney's Department of Anthropology in 2005, researching child labour in Indonesia. She conducted fieldwork in Indonesia for a year, with child workers as her main informants. She is very interested in continuing research in this area of children's economic lives.

Dr Ann Cheryl Armstrong

Director
Professional Learning
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Ann Cheryl has worked in education and professional development for 20 years and has extensive experience as a teacher, teacher educator, research manager, project manager and programme leader. She has worked in countries throughout the Caribbean as well as in the UK and Australia. Ann Cheryl has also held senior positions in two national World Bank projects and has extensive experience in networking with government and non-government agencies for the provision of educational and social services and training. At present she is the on the University of Sydney Indigenous Education Advisory Committee as well as on the Sydney Region (Schools) Planning Group for Aboriginal Education and Training.

Dr Elise Baker

Lecturer
Faculty of Health Sciences

Elise Baker is a speech pathologist and lecturer with over 15 years clinical and research experience in the area of speech impairment in children. Elise has a particular interest in treatment efficacy research; exploring how theory informs practice, and how intervention research informs theory. As co-leader of the NSW Evidence-Based Practice Network: Paediatric Speech Group, Elise is interested in how clinicians across different workplaces put research into practice. She also has interests in the interaction between the developing lexicon and phonology, the genetic bases for speech impairment, and, speech, language and reading outcomes for children with a cochlear implant.

Philippa Collin

PhD Student
Faculty of Arts

Philippa is a PhD candidate in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Policy Manager at the Inspire Foundation. Her research looks at the relationship between youth participation policies, the internet and the development of youth political identities. More broadly her research interests are on: the relationship between participation, citizenship, ICT and mental health; international comparative research; and social policy.

Professor Raewyn Connell

Faculty of Education & Social Work

Raewyn wrote a PhD on the development of young peoples' (5–16) political consciousness (The Child's Construction of Politics), worked on the 2nd Sydney adolescent study (12–20), then on social division in secondary schooling and families (Making the Difference).

She worked on a national study of poverty and education (Running Twice as Hard: Schools and Social Justice), then on an applied study of vocational education; also life–history studies of gender formation (Masculinities, The Men and The Boys)

Dr Teresa Davis

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Economics & Business

Teresa's primary research interests centre around the child as a consumer as socially and culturally constructed. She is interested in the current debate around advertising to children.

Dr Catherine Driscoll

Gender & Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts

Cathy is Chair of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published in a number of areas related to youth and childhood, including her monograph Girls (Columbia University Press, 2002). Current relevant research projects include an ARC discovery project on rural girlhood and a consultancy with the NSW Dept of Education on peer mentoring.

Suzanne Egan

PhD Student
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Suzanne's doctoral research is on "Feminist Knowledge Production and Sexual Assault Services in NSW. A History of a Present".

A/Professor Robyn Ewing

Acting Dean
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Formerly an early childhood (K–2) teacher, Robyn's original doctoral work was in the framing of educational knowledge in classrooms; teacher and student interaction and co-learning; negotiation of the curriculum; and quality learning.

Toby Fattore

Postgraduate Student
Faculty of Economics

Toby is currently investigating children's paid and unpaid work in developed economies; and as a researcher at the NSW Commission for Children and Young People he is also examining children's understandings of well-being.

Dr Anne Honey

Research Fellow
Faculty of Health Sciences

Anne is a Research Fellow with the Australian Family and Disability Studies Research Collaboration. Her research background is primarily in mental illness, adolescent eating disorders and vulnerable families. She is currently project managing an international research collaboration funded by ARACY to bring together pan-disciplinary perspectives on issues relating to adolescents with chronic conditions. Anne's next project, to start in October 2007, aims to a) illuminate how health care and autonomy are negotiated in families in which an adolescent has a mental illness and b) develop strategies for optimising mental health self-care and wellbeing in these families.

Dr John A. Hughes

Pro-Dean
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Dr Kurt Iveson

Lecturer
Urban Geography
Faculty of Science

Dr Karen Lambert

Lecturer
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Karen has been teaching in the PDHPE, youth health and health promotion areas for eight years. A PDHPE teacher by trade, Karen is an enthusiast of critical learning theories, productive pedagogies and learning by doing. In her teaching she strives to develop students' skills in applying theory to practice in a variety of learning and teaching contexts. As a learner Karen has recently completed her PhD research focusing on issues of sexuality, gender, identity and sense of place. She is also currently training as a life coach.

Haibin Li

PhD Candidate
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Finishing her Masters with a major in Educational Psychology, Haibin continues her PhD study at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Professor Derrick Armstrong. In her PhD project, she aims to explore how children/adolescents develop into competent people despite high risks.

Haibin was working in a high school as a school counsellor and administrator for several years in China. In 2001 she was awarded "excellent Director of national students experience training" in China. Her research interests include resilience, parental involvement, parental expectation and self-concept.

Dr Rozanna Lilley

Editor
The Australian Journal of Anthropology

Rozanna is interested in the social trajectories of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families. She is approaching this research from a background in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, and is currently working on a book titled The Autism Chronicles: Maternal Narratives of Love, Loss and Labour. Rozanna's research is currently hosted by Pathways, and early intervention centre in Marrickville. She has previously lectured in Comparative Childhood at Lingran University in Hong Kong, and is also involved in research on autism and the contemporary imagination, focusing on the figures of 'the wild child', 'the eccentric', 'the genius' and 'the autistic celebrity'.

Dr Neil Maclean

Senior Lecturer
Anthropology
Faculty of Arts

Dr Karl Maton

Lecturer
Sociology & Social Policy
Faculty of Arts

Karl is a sociologist of knowledge, curriculum and pedagogy. He is the creator of "legitimation code theory", an approach being used in studies of a range of issues in education, e.g. studies of "net generation" / "digital natives".

Dr Tricia McCabe

Lecturer
Speech Pathology
Faculty of Health Sciences

Tricia is a speech pathologist with research interests in interventions for severe speech disorders in children and young people.

Natalie Munro

Lecturer
Speech Pathology
Faculty of Health Sciences

Natalie is currently completing her PhD thesis which is investigating the underlying processes involved in novel word learning in children with language impairment and their typically developing peers. She is also interested in intervention approaches to improve oral language and emergent literacy abilities in children with language impairments. She has conducted a feasibility trial investigating the relative merits of a combined semantic and phonological awareness intervention approach for preschool and early school-aged children with language impairment. As part of emergent literacy approaches, Natalie is also investigating parent–child storybook interactions as an intervention context for children with language impairment.

Anita Niehues

Doctoral student
Faculty of Health Sciences

Anita's research interests include play and young children with disabilities and their families, process consultation, occupational therapists' use of framing and reframing in their practices, and therapists' view of their roles in different contexts.

Suma Parahakaran

PhD Student
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Suma's area of interest is "Human values education into the school formal and informal curriculum". She has been working with children and youth attitudes and behaviours. As a teacher, her research area has been "Integration of basic human values into subject curriculum".

Professor Trevor Parmenter

Faculty of Medicine / Faculty of Education & Social Work (Adjunct)

Trevor holds the joint appointment of Foundation Professor of Developmental Disability in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Director of the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (CDDS) (1997– ). He also holds the conjoint appointment of Adjunct Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney.

Trevor is a former special education teacher and special school principal. His research career has centered upon youth and adults with a disability in issues such as employment, community living, transition, mental health, physical health, family studies, forensic issues and quality of life.

Dr Helen Proctor

Research Associate
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Dr Kathryn Rose

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health Sciences

A/Professor Louise Rowling

Faculty of Education & Social Work (Adjunct)

Louise has established over a 30 year period, a national and international reputation for work on health promoting schools, mental health promotion and adolescent bereavement. Louise has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation on a number of occasions. She was co-director of the research and development phase of 'MindMatters', the Australian school mental health promotion project and chairs the Evaluation committee. She is the President of 'Intercamhs' the International Alliance of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools. In this role she is currently leading negotiations to form a partnership with the International Confederation of Principals (ICP).

Dr Lesley Scanlon

Lecturer
Faculty of Education & Social Work

Lesley has worked extensively through research, programme design, development and evaluation in youth transitions. Specifically in the transition to university and the ways in which this experience can be supported through structured mentoring. Lesley is also engaged in evaluating the use of the mentoring role in supporting pre-service teachers develop their identity as professions.

Dr Jane Simpson

Senior Lecturer
Linguistics
Faculty of Arts

Jane has been working with colleagues from the University of Melbourne and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies on a longitudinal project documenting the language environment of Indigenous children in three communities in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley. She is very concerned that language professionals and teachers should have up-to-date and accurate information about the languages and social practices of Indigenous families, so as to work more effectively with Indigenous children.

A/Professor Robert Van Krieken

Sociology & Social Policy
Faculty of Arts

Dr Ariadne Vromen

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Economics & Business

Dr Nikki Wedgwood

Research Fellow
Faculty of Health Sciences

Much of Nikki's research has been with adolescents, focusing in particular on gender and embodiment. For instance, she has studied the gendered embodiment of young women and men who play Australian Rules football in secondary school. She plans next to look at the impact of sports participation on young people with physical disabilities, bringing the body into sharp focus through life history interviews.